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Summit Entertainment reveals details on the release of this Mel Gibson film

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Summit Entertainment has announced DVD ($26.99) and Blu-ray ($30.49) releases of The Beaver which stars Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster. Each will be available to own from August 23rd. Extras will include an audio commentary with director and star Jodie Foster, deleted scenes, and a Everything is Going to be O.K. featurette on the making of the film. We've attached a trade advertisement with some early Blu-ray package artwork below:

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Saw this film 2 days ago here in the UK on the big screen. It's a difficult watch and is certainly a hard film to recommend. For those thinking this film is far fetched... believe me, it is far from it and that ending is very realistic. In fact, that is the film's major strength - its ability to show the reality of how mental health can affect an entire family. Worth a watch at least once and i agree Mel grounds this film very nicely.

I would never expected Mel Gibson to work on something like this. I'm not saying it's bad; I've never seen it, it's just that it looks too... weird. I'm not at all interested in seeing it, though. The cover looks terrible.

i12bnmovie wrote: Another movie that I inexplicably want to see. Looked great, got bad reviews, and flopped. Oh well, this and Dylan Dog can be double feature night for me.

It went about 2 for 3 with critics, which isn't bad. And the box office flop has a lot more to do with its flawed distribution model than the film. It only played in 168 theaters at its peak, versus the 3000+ that mainstream fare usually gets.

I never really cared about Mel Gibson as an actor, but I'm a big fan of his as a director and I think his movies in that capacity are highly underrated.

The trailer for this looked great and want very much to see it but although it has both a distributor and a title here, "A New Awakening", and was officially released on May 27, it's nowhere to be seen within driving distance, as far as I know.

I hope it doesn't end up tanking like The Way Back, because of a stillborn distribution scheme.

I'll definitely give this a watch. The concept is obviously a bit silly, but I think it will be worth it for Gibson's performance. You can say what you want about the man, but he's a great actor, and a fairly good director.

Bouncy X wrote: wow....i dont think this even played in theaters here and we usually get everything. i mean it didnt even play at the arthouse type theaters or anything. considering the high profile-ness of it all, i'm surprised.

wow....i dont think this even played in theaters here and we usually get everything. i mean it didnt even play at the arthouse type theaters or anything. considering the high profile-ness of it all, i'm surprised.